Increase or maintain an existing Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition rate

Proposals for the 2025-26 Academic Year

UCOP released the call for proposals from programs that charge Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition (PDST) with expiring multi-year plans, or from programs that wish to establish a PDST charge for a new or existing program effective beginning summer or fall 2025.

The following programs must submit a new multi-year plan if they intend to continue charging PDST in summer or fall 2025:

  • Educational Leadership (EdD)
  • Law
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Statistics
  • Engineering (MEng)
  • Information Management
  • Product Development
  • Translational Medicine
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Proposal Materials

All proposal materials - including the call letter, UCOP deadlines, instructions and planning assumptions, templates, tables, and guidance - can be found in the FY2025-26 PDST bDrive folder (access required).

Please note that we have added a PDST Job Aid to this year's materials. This job aid is designed to help programs navigate UCOP's PDST Dashboard and complete the eight data tables in the multi-year template.

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Deadlines

Because of the high volume of proposals being reviewed this cycle, programs have been split into two groups. The campus submission deadline is Friday, September 27, and is the same for both groups. Email submissions to studentfees@berkeley.edu.

Please note that this is earlier than past years due to an accelerated UCOP submission deadline.

January Regents Meeting

The following programs will be reviewed at the January Regents meeting:

  • Educational Leadership (EdD)
  • Law
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Statistics

March Regents Meeting

The following programs will be reviewed at the March Regents meeting:

  • Engineering (MEng)
  • Information Management
  • Product Development
  • Translational Medicine

Programs with Previously Approved Multi-year Plans

UCOP has asked that all programs with previously approved multi-year plans either:

  • confirm that they intend to charge the maximum approved PDST rate; or
  • request UCOP approval to charge a rate lower than was approved

Please email studentfees@berkeley.edu confirming your proposed 2025-26 charges by Friday, November 4, 2024.

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General Approval Timeline

August

UCOP issues the call for new PDST fees and existing PDST fee increase in August each year.

Late September or Early October

PDST fee proposals are due to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer in late September or early October. The specific due date varies by year and will be communicated to the DFLs annually.

Early to Mid-October

PDST fee proposals are provided to the Graduate Assembly, Graduate Division, and EVCP for review in early to mid-October.

October or November

PDST fee proposals are submitted by the Chancellor to UCOP in October or November.

January and March

The UC Board of Regents will review and approve multi-year proposals for existing PDST programs at the January and March Regents meetings.

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Approval Authority

Chancellor

The Chancellor must approve all PDST multi-year plans before they can be submitted to UCOP.

Regents

The Regents must approve all multi-year plans for new and existing programs.

UCOP

UCOP must approve any reductions to rates in previously approved PDST multi-year plans.

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Contact

Please email studentfees@berkeley.edu with any questions.